The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A three hun0red ana nIty OOilar
bridal dinner dress for an actress has
been completed in New York City.
tits so hard in New Mexico to induce
citizens to accept the office of justice
of the peace that law has been passed
DISTINGUISHING for two years any citi-
zen who is elected justice of the peace
and fails to qualify and act
There is a dog not far from Lees
burg. Fla. that is very fond of hams
(sugar-cured). but will take smoked
rather than 60 without. Last week he
succeeded in purloining three. the
largest weighing fourteen pounds.
"A Northern visitor at New Smyrna,
Fla, writes that he recently saw a
snake so wound in a spider-web
that it was powerless. while several
spiders were busy bleeding it to death.
The snake measured four feet in length.
AT Oakland, Cal, one day last
week. lad while fishing at one of the
wharves managed to get his hook fast
in the mouth of drowned man at the
bottom of the bay, and instead OF a
supposed mammoth fish pulled the hide
Gus catch TO the surface.
The neighbors of a Boston family.
who recently went out of the city on a
vacation, saw cat in the window and
heard it new so pitifully that they
notified the Humane Society. An
agent at once broke into the house and
rescued the animal from starvation. 1t
was only a plaster of Paris cat, how
ever.
Abe Simon, of Tallahassee, has two
curiosities-one agricultural and the
other mechanical. The former Is a
pumpkin that weighs 1O4 pounds.
grown in this country. and the second
is a mechanical monkey that plays a
violin and furnishes excellent music
1t was manufactured in Europe and
given to Mr.. Simon.
"A shorthorn bull and a valuable
stallion got into quarrel at Wellsville,
o. The stallion which was a Clydes-
dale and beautiful animal, displayed
considerable pluck and for few min
utes the struggle was simply terrible.
the earth being torn up for yards by
the huge animals. All efforts to sepa-
rate the brutes were futile and the bat
tie continued undated for ten minutes.
when the bull gored his adversary in
vital spot, killing him instantly.
"A valuable kind of dry pocket glue
is now made by combining twelve parts
of good glue and five parts of sugar.
The glue is boiled until it is entirely
dissolved, the sugar is then put into
the glue and the mass is evaporated un-
til it is found to become hard on cool
ing. Lukewarm water melts it very
readily. and the article proves excellent
for use in causing paper to adhere firm
ly, clearly and without producing the
slightest disagreeable odor. - Boston
Budget.
An Ogdensburg newspaper says
that some of the citizens of the Fourth
Ward of that town have for some time
been annoyed by their cows coming
home at night without the usual
amount of milk. They watched their
cows in hopes of discovering the often
der. and they were successful, for they
saw strange dog approach one of the
cows and rub up against her legs. The
cow put her foot back, when the dog
sat upon his launches and sucked her
dry. He was as fat as a seal from the
milk he had been taking.
"A farmer near Goschen, Conn,
owns a cow that does not give milk.
and, as he is economical, he has adopt
ed. after considerable thought, a plan
whereby the misery milk-producer Is
made to suffer for her dryness, and in
a manner earn her own living. He has
attached to her head a continuance
which makes it impossible for her to
get her head within six or eight inches
of the ground. Therefore she has to
eat thistles. weeds and tall swamp
grass, thereby saving the white honey
suckle and low, sweet grass for the
cows that give milk.
There can be no doubt that the
discoveries and inductions of the pres
emit age have thrown a new light on the
physiology of food. 1t is a happy
thought that some time in the future
mans cook will be his doctor-that he
can prevent as well as cure his ailment
prolong his life. by securing a good
cook. The cook and the physician
have both killed their thousands in the
past, and if they come to be the bene-
factors of humanity by uniting their
best efforts. and pave the way to mil
lennium. they will certainly atone for
much of their old Observation-Disclosures
Constitution.
james Hughes. of Lancaster Coun-
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